Tag: eastside trail

October 13, 2015

Help guide the Eastside Trail master plan

The Eastside Trail will change the region forever, and it can’t become bikeable soon enough. The good news is that King County Parks has begun work on an Eastside Rail Corridor Regional Trail Master Plan, and they need your feedback to help lead the designs. I totally screwed up and didn’t post this before yesterday,…
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tagged: eastside rail corridor, eastside trail, king county parks
June 18, 2015

Three important bike meetings tonight: Missing Link, E Marginal Way + Eastside Trail

I sure hope you want to go to an important bike meeting tonight, because there are three of them at the same time. And they’re all about completely game-changing projects. So if you have the time, go to one of them and let us know how it went. Please. There’s only one of me, and…
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tagged: burke-gilman trail, eastside trail, marginal way, missing link
February 2, 2015

Kirkland’s new trail changes everything

There was Kirkland before the Cross Kirkland Corridor Trail, and now there is Kirkland after. The city officially opened the interim hardpack gravel trail over the weekend, and now the Eastside city has a flat and safe biking and walking route connecting Totem Lake to the South Kirkland Park-and-Ride and nearly to the 520 Trail.…
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tagged: cross kirkland corridor, eastside rail corridor, eastside trail, kirkland
January 5, 2015

Feds reject railroad lawsuit threatening the Eastside Trail, Kirkland section opens soon

The case for freight rail service as a reason to stop to the Cross Kirkland Corridor Trail (one part of the Eastside Rail Corridor) always seemed rather weak. But since it would be decided by a Federal agency and laws governing rail are often old and sometimes strange, a lawsuit by the Ballard Terminal Railroad…
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tagged: cross kirkland corridor, eastside rail corridor, eastside trail, kirkland, kurt triplett